Game Thread GAME# 82: PELICANS @ BLAZERS - APRIL 12, 2017 - WEDNESDAY, 7:30 (PDT), ESPN & KGW

I don't understand why this is so hard to understand for some people.

Also, the debate between Curry and Lillard is kind of ridiculous. Curry has better advanced stats across the board, similar raw stats, and is the best or second best player on one of the greatest regular season teams of all time.

The next time they give individual honors to a player on a 41 win team over a player on a 67 win team with similar stats will be the first. This isn't a situation where there aren't enough good centers or forwards to fill out on the all-nba ballot. There are a plethora of good guards and I think Lillard is honestly better than some of the forwards or centers that are going to make the all-nba teams.

But he's not going to take Curry's guard spot on the all-nba team. Let's be real here.

 

Perfect...wouldn't be the first time someone made reference to me or something as did as not being typical.

 

This. Voters won't forget that Curry has been the best player in the league on the best team in the league for the last two seasons. Sure, now he shares the spotlight and the ball with Durant, but he still puts Lillard like numbers on the best basketball team in the world. All else being equal, 66 (or 67) wins trumps 41 (or 42).

BNM

 

FWIW, I made it through DifEq and linear algebra, and this makes perfect sense to me. Let's just make sure we don't let identity politics divide the board. The Nerds and the antiNerds (Nerdi).

 

Shhhhhhh!!!! Don't tell anyone.

 

Bones. Wall is averaging 23 pts 11 assist 4 rebounds and 2 steals. And his team has homecourt in the first round. How can he not make it?? As for Curry, he's the starting PG on the team with the best record.

 

I read a web site that made it make sense to me so I take back what I said. Y'all are horrible teachers though that a web site did better!

(In fairness to you, I was the dumbest nerd in the nerd clubs. In chess club in grade school, they put a dunce cap on my head and I left after three weeks)

 

Bones. Curry didn't lead his team?? How so? He's two time NBA MVP starting point guard on 67 win team.

 

Westbrick
Har_en
Best player in the NBA today, aka the real MVP.
Leonard
Boogie

Wall
Curry
Greek Freak
Durant
Gobert

Thomas
Lillard
Butler
George
Whiteside

 

Vote for the Pre-Game intro video for the Pelicans game and be entered to win an autographed basketball

http://www.nba.com/blazers/vote

 

That was cool. THANKS! Hopefully someone here gets it.....

 

This isn't the all-star game. Team success isn't rewarded as much in All-NBA teams. Lillard made 2nd team All-NBA last year with 44 wins.

27/6 > 23/11, because do those 5 extra assists actually translate to better efficiency/more buckets? No.

Portland's role players get shots out of the offense, while the Wizards role players get shots fed to them by John Wall. Doesn't make Wall better. The extra 7 wins in the weaker conference isn't a difference maker either.

 

Cool thing for today's game:

Harkless is currently at 35.1% (68/194) from 3 for the season. If he shoots above 35%, he gets a 500K bonus. He has not attempted any threes in the past two games. I really don't get why they didn't have an attempts clause (like only on 200+ attempts or something) in the contract.

If he goes just 0-1 today, he will drop below 35%. This WILL affect our final cap number this year. Something to watch out for.

 

Another statistical milestone: Dame needs to get 28p, 16a, 12r tonight to hit a 27-6-5 average without having to do some rounding up for his season averages.

 

[RAGE]